Ohio-Child is the official child theme for the Ohio WordPress theme, built for safe customizations, performance, and long-term scalability. It preserves your edits during parent theme updates, adds flexible hooks for developers, and keeps your site fast, secure, and SEO-ready—perfect for agencies, creatives, and ecommerce.
- Safe updates: keep custom code intact when the Ohio parent theme updates
- Custom functions and templates without touching core files
- Easy enqueue of custom CSS and JS for site-wide styling
- Lightweight, minimal overhead for faster performance
- Clean file structure aligned with WordPress standards
- Full compatibility with the Ohio theme and bundled plugins
- SEO-friendly architecture and schema-ready templates
- WooCommerce-ready for custom shop layouts and hooks
- Gutenberg and classic editor support
- Ready for child-specific template overrides and partials
- Hooks and filters for advanced developers
- Translation-ready and WPML-compatible
- Follows best practices for security and code quality
- Simple install and activation via WordPress dashboard
- Ideal for branding, white-labeling, and client handoff